Recently Photo Books Reviews

I used Recently, until recently. I cancelled my subscription after placing my last order which turned out to be a bad move on my part. Unfortunately, as soon as you cancel, you lose access to your account leaving you unable to track any outstanding orders. ‘No big deal’ I thought, I’ll just contact customer service to get a status (it’d been over a week since my order was placed at this point). It’s been three days and I’ve still been unable to get a status from customer service after numerous back and forths. Horrible, just horrible. Find another app to make your photo mags, you’ll be thankful you did.

This company speaks with condescending tones and acts as though all billing issues are because of the customer. The books take hours to create because errors occur at least 20 times during the photo upload process. Because of this, I tried to cancel. They stated my subscription was cancelled yet continued to charge my credit card monthly. I then tried to get a refund and was denied. I changed my credit card number and had to open a complaint through capital one against them. Fast forward 8 months and they again charged my card through iTunes and then refused to honor or refund the amounts they have charged for all previous months. This company is a horrible to deal with yet I can't seem to get rid of them without cancelling iTunes all together. We all know, that is not possible! Now, all I can do is fight to get books published so I at least get my money back through a product. I just attempted to do so and was CHARGED an additional $8.99. I'm at a loss as to how to get refunds at this point.

I thought RecentlyPhotoBooks was a great idea and elected to take out a monthly subscription. After a few months I realized I didnt take enough pictures to justify the expense so I canceled my subscription. At least I thought my subscription was canceled. I was shocked to see that I was still being billed the monthly charge months after I canceled. I then tried to access my account to verify that the account was canceled but RecentlyPhotoBooks would no longer accept my password. So I reset my password and went to my account and clicked cancel my subscription, I got another message that said "Oops! Something went wrong". So I logged out and tried to access my account with the new password I just entered and again it wouldn't accept the new password. I went through the same process again with the same result. I then tried to contact RecentlyPhotoBooks support. There is no telephone number for the developer and the message I sent them detailing the problem I was having has been unanswered.
So, are you sure you want RecentlyPhotoBooks because once you sign up it appears that they won't let you cancel.

I really wanted to love RecentlyPhotoBooks. I signed up for a subscription, then went on to select photos for my magazine. When it came time to upload photos or preview the magazine, RecentlyPhotoBooks continued to load and eventually close on its on. I saw that many other reviewers had the same issue. I looked up FAQs on their site and made sure to go through all troubleshooting steps. I have only used RecentlyPhotoBooks at home with a steady wifi connection where I run a full business without internet issues. I Opened/closed RecentlyPhotoBooks . Uninstalled and reinstalled RecentlyPhotoBooks , etc. Still no luck. They have already charged my card even though I have not successfully created a magazine which is also frustrating. Now I have to message them and ask for my money back because I cannot continue trying to use RecentlyPhotoBooks unsuccessfully.

We started using Recently a few years ago when I realized that I wanted our photos to live outside of my phone, but with busy twins and an active family, didn’t have time to print them out and scrapbook them.

Enter Recently. It’s so easy! I get to choose the photos, decide how many to include (it’s always 150 these days 😂) and pick color, covers, and now a little intro blurb. I can even send them to other members of the family easily. Hit “publish” and boom: high-quality photos on beautiful paper, printed, bound, and shipped.

Now that our twins are in elementary school, they love going back and looking at the magazines from when they were babies. We’re building a whole library of photo books, and I can only imagine how valuable it will be in twenty years to have these beautiful memories to page through.

I love Recently. I've been using it for more than a year. I love taking pictures of my family - every day pictures of their sports activities or our vacations. But once I upload them to the cloud, I forget about them. Now, I very easily can pick the best pictures and in a few minutes, I have created a professional looking book. We keep a stack of Recently books in our living room and the kids look back at the memories in them all the time. Kudos to the Recently team.

I have been mostly without issues using RecentlyPhotoBooks but the few times I have had some trouble, my emails are always responded to quickly and with a solution to the problem.
I'm impressed with the quality of the magazines. I like the fact that there are margins because I've started writing captions or little notes in them to go along with the pictures.

I am so very impressed with my magazine. The quality, the pictures, the layout. I’ve used another app that made horribly dark pictures and they told me they couldn’t edit them. What a waste. This book is so beautifully done, I love that all my pictures came out clear and light. Love the matte finish, love the full page photos, love everything about it. It’s the best way to keep hard copies of your photos!

I make one magazine each month for my children. From the ski seasons to summer hiking adventures and first days of school my kiddos will have memories. This is a great app and very user friendly and trust me I hate technology. If your looking to share memories and keep memories of your family I suggest using RecentlyPhotoBooks. To think my kids will have over 200 magazines to look at when they have a family of their own. Pretty solid gift for others also.

I have been using Recently for a couple years now. The magazines they deliver are well done and I love the ease of RecentlyPhotoBooks . Now as a new parent I find RecentlyPhotoBooks even more appealing due to ease of use and the conviene of pulling photos straight from my phone. Having minimal time to myself now and often only one hand free this means a lot. The customer service is amazing! They contact you right away and you are dealing with a real person who actually congratulated me on my new family addition.

I like RecentlyPhotoBooks because it’s simple and easy to use and the photo books are great. You get to choose the photo that goes on the cover of the book. I recommend only doing 50 photos per book, then all the photos are a larger size. I have made over 20 of these books and I give them as gifts and keep many for myself, so much better than photo albums and the quality is great!

I just received my latest book today. I have been doing these books since their inception. We have been extremely pleased with the quality of these books. The latest change making both left and right side pictures full page pictures is so fantastic! The books look even better than before. We love showing off the books to all of our friends, especially the ones who are in the book. We couldn't be happier with the books! Customer service is great also.

I love RecentlyPhotoBooks- I’ve had it for a few years and have used it to help us hold on to memories of our kids. It has constantly improved over the years and they have some of the best customer service I’ve encountered for an app. We have the books displayed in our house and people always ask about them because they look amazing. It’s easy to pick and choose the photos you want and the books come pretty quickly. Overall, I couldn’t recommend RecentlyPhotoBooks any higher.

I was given a gift certificate for Recently from someone who knows I love photography. I’ve made plenty of hardcover photo books before but never a soft cover magazine and I was not familiar with Recently. I finally got around to publishing my first magazine and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy the process was, how responsive the company was when troubleshooting my questions, and how phenomenal the magazine looked once published. It was truly an enjoyable experience and a beautiful finished product. I’m so happy I was introduced to Recently and plan to publish many more magazines.

I made magazines for each of my boys of all their camp photos from this past summer. They came out so good, that I dug back into past photos and made one magazine for each past summer. Each one is my new favorite thing. I wish I had these from when I was a camper!!! And to note: I’m not usually this good. I am no Pinterest mom (although respect to those that are!) but this whole process was so easy. Minimal effort. And each mag exceeded my expectations. Like the title says: love love LOVE! Thanks so much, Recently. Looking forward to making more!

I downloaded RecentlyPhotoBooks when my daughter was born to actually do something with all the pictures I was taking of her. I published a magazine for each month her first year! I love the magazines! They are super cute to have out on a coffee table and they are so fun for family and friends to flip through! I made a mistake on one of my magazines and the company sent me a new one with the correct edits for free! They are a small business but they were diligent in replying to my emails! Definitely recommend RecentlyPhotoBooks if you are looking to actually do something with all the wonderful photos you take on your phone!

Even in our world of technology, there is something special about actually holding a picture. These books provide a lovely way to organize and highlight your favorites! The books feel very quality and RecentlyPhotoBooks is simple to use once you get the hang of it.

It’s always a fun day when one comes in the mail! I do the quarterly subscription, which works perfectly for me because I wouldn’t have enough print-worthy pictures at this point to make it worth monthly. Maybe once I have kids, I’ll up to monthly :)

Overall excellent! Quality, nice printing at a reasonable price in a form that’s easy to store and show others. Keep up the good work!

I’ve been making these magazines/books for over two years. It’s an ingenious, fast, clear way to chronicle events with friends and family from each busy month. Whatever happens in a particular month across the world that interests me, I include by editing screen shots from social media. Friends are always surprised and pleased to find their images in this clever chronicle. I love that I can choose the amount of photos yet the book stays the same size with the photo sizes varying. If you have a question, the response time from the Get Recently group is incredibly fast. I also use to create as a gift for friends from weddings or other special occasions. Five Stars plus for my favorite app ever!!!

We became parents in early January and have used Recently as an alternative to the baby month sticker pictures. Instead of one silly picture with the sticker, we've used this awesome print service to create a magazine (featuring our son) every month. The magazine prints beautiful 50 full page or 100 half page photos on heavy paper and that gives several (somewhat limited) photo options (no cropping or resize options in RecentlyPhotoBooks ). Although it is not a terribly intuitive app- you can easily organize your photos into a folder on your phone and upload that folder to be published. It is a fantastic option for people that never print photos from their phone to easily get them printed into a high quality magazine that will look beautiful on coffee tables or book shelves (even the spine can be personalized).

This is perfect for all the pictures in your phone that you swear you will one day print and never do. I now create shared albums for trips or certain events, have everyone share there, then grab that folder in recently and lay out my book. They look adorable stacked on your bookshelf and the kids love looking through them!